Dick Bolles

Career-development expert and best-selling author

Dick Bolles is a best-selling author who is a leading career-development expert. His legendary work, What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, is now in its 40th edition and remains the most popular job-hunting book in the world. He is a member of both Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management.

Bolles was trained in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s in sacred theology from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City and three honorary doctorates. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, Marci.